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Humans vs Animals
Följande lektionsupplägg kan ta två lektioner i anspråk. Momenten är därför
uppdelade i två delar.
• Skriv ut lektionsupplägget
• Skriv ut elevmaterialet (sidorna ur textbook och workbook + ev. facit)
• Ljudfilen finns på www.liber.se från augusti. Ljudmanus finns även bifogat
för högläsning.
DEL 1
1. Inledande diskussion för att fokusera på temat:
Inled med att be eleverna diskutera följande frågor i par i någon minut (det är bra
att tidsbestämma hur länge):
• What’s the fastest animal in the world? What would it take to outrun this
animal? Is there an animal which can?
• What’s the biggest animal in the world?
• Are we (humans) the most intelligent animal in the world? If not?
What animal is?
När eleverna har diskuterat frågorna går ni i helklass igenom några saker som har
kommit upp. Led därefter in eleverna på att snabbhet inte alltid handlar om hur
fort man springer. Det kan till exempel handla om reaktionsförmåga också. Ibland
kan det vara svårt att reagera tillräckligt snabbt. Be dem diskutera följande frågor
i par igen:
• Why do we not always react as quickly as we need to?
What different reasons can you think of?
• Is it possible to train your ability to react more quickly?
(Det kan till exempel bero på om man är trött, rädd, ouppmärksam osv. Ja, löpare tränar
upp sin förmåga att komma snabbt ur startblocken, fäktare tränar upp sin förmåga att
snabbt läsa och reagera på sin motståndares rörelser, kampsportsutövare är i regel mycket
snabba i sina rörelser osv.)
2. Berätta att ni nu ska läsa om ett väldigt intressant experiment där en kvinnlig
kampsportsutövare utmanar en skallerorm.
3. Dela ut textmaterialet. (Här kan du välja att bara dela ut den första sidan.)
Läs gemensamt om Li Jing. Läs texten i klassen. Stäm av läsförståelsen så att
alla har förstått hur experimentet gick till.
Om ni har en interaktiv skrivtavla i klassrummet kan ni nu titta på följande klipp
där ni kan se hur experimentet gick till: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/
channel/videos/snake-style-kung-fu/. Språkbruket kan vara lite svårt, men eleverna bör förstå eftersom de redan har läst om experimentet.
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4. Dela ut övningsbokshäftet och be eleverna nu göra uppgiften Check Your
Reading (s. 14). Ge dem gärna en viss tid att fylla i stödorden och en viss tid till
uppgift 2 (att återberätta med hjälp av stödorden).
DEL 2
5. I följande textdel jämförs djurens sinnen med människans. Innan ni läser denna
textdel låter du eleverna välja varsitt av följande sinnen: syn, hörsel, känsel,
smak, lukt och det sjätte sinnet. Dela ut resten av textboksmateialet (om du inte
redan har gjort det). Be nu eleverna att noggrant läsa den text som behandlar
det sinne de valt. Ge dem en viss tid att förbereda att återberätta det de har läst.
6. P
lacera eleverna i tvärgrupper och låt dem presentera det de har läst om för varandra. Som avslutning läser sedan alla elever samtliga textbitar själva.
7. Runda av genom att följa upp med diskussionsfrågorna 1 och 2 i textboksdelen
(s. 21). Eleverna fortsätter därefter att arbeta självständigt med övningarna i
workbookhäftet.
8. Gå igenom de rätta svaren med eleverna, alternativt låt dem rätta självständigt
med hjälp av facit.
9. Gör hörövningen (s. 17 i Workbooksdelen). Ljudfilen finns på www.liber.se från
och med augusti. Hf-manus finns bifogat för högläsning.
10. Avsluta med Now You’re Talking (s. 17 i Workbooksdelen).
Tips!
Som knorr på slutet kan det vara roligt att låta eleverna titta på
följande klipp som återigen belyser hur vi står oss i jämförelse
med djuren, denna gång är det fråga om minnet: http://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=TC1nJ61l-h4&feature=related
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G. The human senses
Listen to the following about the human senses. Tick True or False when you hear
this sound.
Here’s number one.
Speaker 2:
You’ve probably had a headache many times in your life and
know that it may hurt quite a lot. The truth is that the brain is
the centre of pain when you hurt your leg playing football or
cut your finger on a sharp knife. But it is also true that the brain
itself cannot feel pain.
(kort paus för att svara på frågan)
Speaker 1:
Here’s number two.
Speaker 2:
You shouldn’t have a big meal before going to a concert. If you
do, your hearing will become less sharp. So the best advice
would be to have a light snack if you want good value for money when going to a live concert.
(kort paus för att svara på frågan)
Speaker 1:
Here’s number three.
Speaker 2:
Do you wear glasses or contact lenses? Don’t worry, most
people do, at least sooner or later in life. And as we grow older,
more and more of us need to do something to improve our eyesight. The fact is that only about one third of all human beings
have 20-20 vision.
(kort paus för att svara på frågan)
Speaker 1:
Here’s number four.
Speaker 2:
Scientists have made tests to find out if there is a difference
between men and women when it comes to smell. Experiments
have clearly shown that women actually are better smellers
than men. Women were born that way and they remain better
all their lives. For example, they are better at identifying smells
such as vanilla, cinnamon and coffee.
(kort paus för att svara på frågan)
Speaker 1:
Here’s number five.
Speaker 2:
Here’s a little experiment you can do yourself. Dry off your
tongue completely with a piece of cloth. Then put some food
or drink on your tongue. What will happen? Will you taste anything? No, you won’t, because saliva is necessary for any kind
of food or drink to have taste.
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B. Senses and animals
E. Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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• 1. sensitive
• 1. taste - pig
• 2. humans
• 2. touch - seal
• 3. drugs
• 3. sight - eagle
• 4. tongue
• 4. smell - dog
• 5. contain
• 5. hearing – elephant or dog
• 6. safety
• 2
• 7. voice
• elephant, dog
• 8. illegal
• 9. disaster
C. Working with words - synonyms
• 10. earthquake
• 1. c
• 2. e
• 3. a
• 4. f
• 5. h
• 6. i
• 7. j
• 8. g
• 9. d
• 10. b
D. Complete
• 1. handsome/beautiful
• 2. difficult/hard
• 3. unique/special
• 4. silent/quiet
• 5. strong/powerful
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F. Translate
Dogs have a fantastic sense of smell.
They are good at finding survivors in
earthquakes. Eagles, on the other hand,
have very good eyesight. They can see/
spot a rabbit one and a half kilometers
away. Pigs have many more taste buds
than humans/human beings and elephants have incredible hearing. Seals
have very good touch and can track fish
swimming in very dark water.
G. The human senses
• 1. True
• 2. False
• 3. False
• 4. True
• 5. True
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Humans vs Animals
FASTER THAN
A SNAKE?
Is it possible for a
human being to run
faster than a cheetah?
Or hit harder than a
tiger? Or strike faster
than a snake?
Li Jing, from Beijing, China, is one of the world’s top martial arts experts. In
an experiment with scientists, she was going to use her arm and her hand to
strike like a snake.
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This is how the experiment was carried out. A rattlesnake, whose bites are
extremely painful and often fatal to humans, was put in front of a red balloon
that was moving. Modern video equipment was used to show how the
rattlesnake raised its body and then hit the balloon. Result? 14.39 km/h.
Li Jing saw all this and was asked to try and do the same. She should imitate
the style of the snake and hit the eyes of a doll’s head with the tip of her
fingers. The head was moving back and forth, and from side to side, just like
the balloon. Result? 15.12 km/h. She was moving about 5% faster than the
snake! And she did it in the same style as the snake and with perfect precision.
For centuries people
have tried to imitate
animals. They have
studied animals to
learn to fight the way
they do it in the wild.
But is it possible, can
a human being really
learn to do some of
the unique things that
animals can do?
This proved that a human can learn not only to strike like a snake but do it
with the same accuracy and with greater speed! Practice really makes perfect!
Of course, it took her years and years of hard work to learn this.
Warning: Do not practise martial arts without a professional coach!
Li Jing was really successful when she tested her limits and challenged a
rattlesnake, but the questions is: Are humans as good as animals when it comes
to other things? Read the following information about our senses and find out.
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unique
FASTER THAN A SNAKE?
cheetah
gepard
hit (hit, hit, hit)
träffa, slå
strike (strike, struck, struck) slå; här:
hugga
for centuries
i år­
hundraden
imitate
imitera,
härma
unik
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martial arts expert
was carried out
rattlesnake
extremely
painful
fatal
expert på
kampsport
utfördes
skallerorm
ytterst
smärtsam
dödlig
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video equipment
raise
doll
back and forth
accuracy
coach
challenge
sense
videoutrustning
lyfta, resa upp
docka
fram och tillbaka
träffsäkerhet
tränare
utmana
sinne
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SMELL
Humans have a good sense of smell. But it is nothing
compared to that of a dog. Dogs are born to sniff.
The dog’s nose is a remarkable organ. It is about one
hundred times more sensitive than a human nose.
It can sniff out illegal drugs and explosives, track
runaways from prisons and search for buried survivors
in earthquakes or avalanches.
SIGHT
Of course, a dog’s eyesight is pretty poor
compared to that of a human. And they only
see the world in black and white. An eagle’ s
eyesight, on the other hand, is probably at least
four times sharper than a human’s. That means,
an eagle can see a rabbit moving almost one and
a half kilometres away.
TASTE
Like humans, pigs eat vegetables, fish and meat.
Like us, their tongues have taste buds that tell
the brain if something is sweet, salty, sour or
bitter. A pig’s tongue, however, has 15,000 taste
buds. The human tongue only 9,000. So who is
the gourmet?
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SMELL
sense of smell
compared to
that of a dog
are born (bear, bore, born)
remarkable
sensitive
illegal
explosive
luktsinne
jämfört med
en hunds
är födda, föds
anmärkningsvärd
känslig
olaglig
sprängämne
track runaways
buried survivors
earthquake
avalanche
spåra upp rymlingar
överlevande som begravts
jordbävning
lavin
SIGHT
sight, eyesight
pretty poor
syn
ganska dålig
TASTE
taste bud
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HEARING
Elephants not only have bigger ears than humans.
Their hearing is also much better. They use infrasonic
sounds in long-distance communication. Those are
sounds the human ear can’t hear at all. Elephants
recognise calls and voices of other elephants from
more than a kilometre away.
TOUCH
The seal has perhaps the best whiskers in the
animal kingdom. Using them, seals can track fish
swimming 180 metres away even if the water is
very dark and muddy. Humans? Well, at least we
can feel if the water is warm or cold.
THE SIXTH SENSE
There are many stories about animals that behave very
strangely before a storm, an earthquake or a volcano
eruption. Before the big tsunami hit Thailand in 2004, the
elephants left the lowlands for safety on higher ground.
Maybe some animals have a sixth sense and can foretell
disaster. Many animals can definitely sense changes in
the weather. Horses for example, stay close together when
they sense a snow storm. Humans? Well we tend to trust
technology more.
After Reading
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2.
S 3.
bitter
gourmet
besk
finsmakare
HEARING
hearing
infrasonic sound
long distance
whiskers
muddy
morrhår
grumlig
THE SIXTH SENSE
hörsel
infraljud
på långt håll
the sixth sense
känsel
säl
volcano eruption
lowlands
TOUCH
touch
seal
List five facts that surprised you or facts you didn’t
know before.
Which of the animal senses in the texts would you
like to have most of all? Why?
Find out more on the Internet about our senses.
Report back in class.
behave strangely
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det sjätte
sinnet
uppföra sig
konstigt
vulkanutbrott
lågland
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safety
on higher ground
säkerhet
terräng på
högre höjd
foretell
förutsäga
(foretell, foretold, foretold)
sense
känna av
tend
tendera
trust
lita på
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Humans vs Animals
A.
Faster than a snake
1.
Look at the pictures. Write keywords under each picture.
2.
Work in pairs. Use your keywords and tell each other about one picture each.
B.
Senses and animals
1.
Match each sense with the best animal.
Senses
Animals
1.
taste
a.
eagle
2.
touch
b.
elephant
3.
sight
c.
dog
4.
smell
d.
seal
5.
hearing
e.
pig
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2.
Write at least two animals for the sixth sense.
Vocabulary
C.
Working with words – synonyms
Match the adjective with its synonym. Write the correct number in the box.
1.
hard
2.
fantastic
3.
huge
4.
handsome
5.
fast
6.
unique
7.
fatal
8.
perfect
9.
strong
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1







10. silent
D.
A. big
B. quiet
C. difficult
D. powerful
E. excellent
F. beautiful
G. exact
H. quick
I. special
J. deadly
Complete
Now use adjectives from Exercise C to make these sentences complete.
1.
Joe is not only tall and in very good shape. He also has a very _____________________ face.
(vackert)
2.
I don’t quite understand this text. It’s too ___________________________ for me.
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(svår)
3.
Kate has a _____________________________ talent – she knows how to talk to horses!
(speciell)
4.
I didn’t know what to say so I was _____________________, while Sandra did all the talking.
(tyst)
5.
The boa constrictor is an extremely _____________________ snake that can easily crush a
(stark)
human being.
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E.
Vocabulary – crossword puzzle
Solve the crossword puzzle.
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1
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Across
3. He was arrested for selling … (droger)
5. How much sugar does this drink …? (innehålla)
6. The police are worried about the children’s … (säkerhet)
7. Sam’s got a very beautiful … (röst)
9. Thousands of people died in the … (katastrofen)
10. The … was very strong – 7.2 on the Richter scale. (jordbävning)
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Down
1. My teeth are very … to cold drinks. (känsliga)
2. Dogs can hear much better than … (människor)
4. It’s rude to stick your … out at people. (tunga)
8. Of course it’s … to drive through a red light. (olagligt)
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Translate
F.
Dogs have …
Translate into English. You find most words and expressions on pages 20–21 in your textbook.
Hundar har ett fantastiskt luktsinne. De är bra på att hitta överlevare i jordbävningar. Örnar
däremot har mycket bra syn. De kan se en kanin en och en halv kilometer bort. Grisar har många
fler smaklökar än människor och elefanter har otrolig hörsel. Sälar har bra känsel och kan spåra
fisk som simmar i mycket mörkt vatten.
Listening
G.
The human senses
Listen to the following about the human senses. Are the statements True or False?
Tick (√) the right boxes.
True
1.
The brain cannot feel pain.
2.
Your hearing is better after eating a lot of food.
3.
About 50% of all people have a perfect 20-20 vision.
4.
Women are better at smelling than men.
5.
Without saliva you cannot taste anything.
False
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Now You’re Talking
H.
Talking about our senses
1.
Work on your own. Mark the sense you think is the most important. Explain your choice.
smell 
2.
sight 
taste 
hearing 
Work in small groups.
a. Compare your choice and explain it.
b. Agree on ONE favourite sense.
3.
touch 
Find out which is the favourite sense of the whole class.
statement påstående
pain smärta
vision syn
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